The reviewer for the Critical was interested in the novel's variety of subject and approved its moral, but tempered this praise by saying it was entitled to a decent rank in the circulating libraries.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
Frederick S. Frank
Literary responses
Isabella Kelly
This novel was praised by the British Critic as entitled to no mean place among the better productions of this description.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
The interesting characters, gripping incident, and unaffected language were singled out for praise.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
Frederick S. Frank
Literary responses
Isabella Kelly
Frederick S. Frank
, whose brief required him to interest himself in gothic elements almost to the exclusion of others, called this a horrifying saga with considerably muted horror, and acknowledged the elegiac tone and...
Textual Production
Jane Harvey
JH
seems to have published two castle novels with the Minerva Press
: Minerva Castle, A Tale and Warkfield Castle, A Tale; but no copy of the former has been found, so it may...
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Texts
Frank, Frederick S. The First Gothics. Garland, 1987.